In 2023, the government budget allocations for Research and Development (GBARD) amounted to 417.5 million BGN, which was 14.1% more than the previous year.
The distribution of the government budget allocations for R&D by socio-economic objectives shows that the largest is the share (48.5%) of the state support for research aimed at ‘General advancement of knowledge’, which mainly includes the research carried out by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and by the higher schools.
Detailed data can be found on the NSI website under the heading ‘Government budget allocations for R&D (GBARD) by socio-economic objectives’.
